Essays, Letters & Speeches

Laocoon: An essay upon the limits of painting and poetry. With remarks illustrative of various points in the history of ancient art.

Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

This work is Gotthold Ephraim Lessing’s “Laocoon,” an essay that probes the boundaries between painting and…

The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor, Vol. I, No. 4, April 1810

The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor, Vol. I, No. 4 (April 1810) is a scholarly periodical devoted to the…

Beethoven's Letters 1790-1826, Volume 1

Ludwig van Beethoven

This volume presents a scholarly edition of Ludwig van Beethoven’s correspondence, assembled from the…

Een Broertje van den Beer

William J. Long

Dit werk is een verzameling van natuur‑ en gedragsobservaties van wilde dieren, geschreven door de…

Chaucer's Works, Volume 5 — Notes to the Canterbury Tales

Geoffrey Chaucer

The volume opens with a scholarly preface that sets out the editor’s purpose: to untangle the tangled history…

The Works of the Emperor Julian, Vol. 1

Emperor of Rome Julian

The volume gathers the surviving speeches, addresses and related writings of Julian, the fourth‑century Roman…

The Renaissance: Studies in Art and Poetry

Walter Pater

The book is a scholarly study that treats the Renaissance as a broad cultural movement rather than a narrow…

The Literary Remains of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Volume 4

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The Literary Remains of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Volume 4 is a posthumous compilation of manuscript…

Maxims and Reflections

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

This volume presents Johann Wolfgang von Goethe’s Prose Maxims in English translation, offering a curated…

The Epistles on the Romance of the Rose, and other documents in the debate

Charles Frederick Ward

Ce texte est une étude philologique et historique présentée comme une dissertation de doctorat, rédigée par…

Religio Medici, Hydriotaphia, and the Letter to a Friend

Sir Thomas Browne

The volume brings together three of Sir Thomas Browne’s most celebrated writings, Religio Medici, a…

The Entire Project Gutenberg Works of Mark Twain

Mark Twain

This volume gathers the complete range of Mark Twain’s published output, organized by the bibliography of…

The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No 3, September 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy

Various

The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No. 3, is a nineteenth‑century periodical that blends literary commentary…

Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 16

The volume presents a scholarly overview of Aulus Gellius’s Attic Nights, a sprawling anthology of excerpts…

Instigations Together with An Essay on the Chinese Written Character

Ezra Pound

Ezra Pound’s Instigations Together with an Essay on the Chinese Written Character is a hybrid work of…

Hortus Inclusus Messages from the Wood to the Garden, Sent in Happy Days to the Sister Ladies of the Thwaite, Coniston

John Ruskin

This work is a collection of letters exchanged between John Rus‑on and the sisters Mary and Susie Beever,…

The Oxford Book of American Essays

The Oxford Book of American Essays is a curated anthology that seeks to showcase the distinctive voice of…

古文觀止

Wu, Chengquan, active 1695-1711; Wu, Dazhi, active 1678-1695

The collected works of William Hazlitt, Vol. 05 (of 12)

William Hazlitt

The volume is the fifth in a twelve‑part collected edition of William Hazlitt’s writings, gathering his…

Talks To Teachers On Psychology; And To Students On Some Of Life's Ideals

William James

The work is a collection of public lectures William James delivered at the request of the Harvard Corporation…

The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer; the Art of Controversy

Arthur Schopenhauer

The work is a collection of Schopenhauer’s essays on logic, debate and the art of controversy, drawn chiefly…

"Pennsylvania Dutch," and other essays

Phebe Earle Gibbons

Phebe Earle Gibbons’s “Pennsylvania Dutch, and other essays” is a nineteenth‑century ethnographic collection…

The Unfolding Destiny of the British Bahá'í Community : the Messages from the Guardian of the Bahá'í Faith to the Bahá'ís of the British Isles

Effendi Shoghi

The work is a collection of letters and directives from Shoghi Effendi, the Guardian of the Bahá’í Faith,…

Shakespeare and the Emblem Writers an exposition of their similarities of throught and expression, preceded by a view of emblem-literature down to A.D. 1616

Henry Green

The work is a scholarly study that sets out to demonstrate how Shakespeare’s poetry and drama echo the…